In a much awaited judgment that has been a landmark one in the IP realm, to be precise, patent realm, the US court jury has ordered Samsung to pay Apple $1.05 billion. There is a room for appeal against the judgment.
Giving brief insights of the case, Apple Inc.
filed its patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung Electronics Co., in April 2011, claiming $2.5 billion. Samsung Electronics Co. fired back with its own lawsuit seeking $399 million.
In its verdict, the US court jury in California rejected all Samsung's
claims against Apple. However, the jurors also decided against some of Apple's
claims involving the two dozen Samsung devices at issue, declining to
award the full $2.5 billion Apple demanded.
The U.S. trial was the latest skirmish between the two tech
giants as they have filed similar
lawsuits in eight other countries, including South Korea, Germany, Japan, Italy, the Netherlands, Britain, France and Australia.
In the home court ruling, Samsung won global patent battle against Apple as judges in a Seoul court held that Samsung didn't copy the look and feel of the iPhone and ruled that Apple infringed on Samsung's wireless technology. But they also held that Samsung had violated Apple's technology behind the
feature that causes a screen to bounce back when a user scrolls to an
end image. Both sides were ordered to pay limited damages.
Before the US Court's verdict against it, Samsung had also lost previously in European court,
where judges ruled that Samsung patents were part of industry
standards that must be licensed under fair terms to competitors.
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